Decoding images with Cool-chic

In order to offer fast decoding, Cool-chic relies on a C API re-implementing efficiently all the components of the decoder i.e ARM, Upsampling, Synthesis.

The following script is used to decode image with Cool-chic. We provide a few already encoded bitstreams, ready to be decoded in samples/bitstreams/.

(venv) ~/Cool-Chic$ python coolchic/decode.py \
    -i=samples/bitstream/kodim14.cool \
    -o=decoded-kodim14.ppm \
    --verbosity=1

Note that Cool-Chic outputs either PPM (and not PNG!) or YUV files.